PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 September 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. P. J, Hill and Mr. J. ©.Sole leW >Vew 'Plymouth by the mail train yesterday on a visit to Christchurch.

The death of Rear-Admiral Leicester Kcppel is announced in a, cable message; from London.

Mr. J. Harvey, Fitzroy, ha,? received, cable advice- that his son, Corporal F. Harvey, of the 20th Reinforcements, ia dangerously ill in Etaples Hospital, suffering from appendicitis, '■ An Invercargill telegram reports thai, the death occurred. on Sunday of Mr. W. B. Scandrett, aged 7.7. He was fol many years town clerk and six times mayor. He held many prominent positions, and was a prominent Oddfellow and Mason. . ":

Dr. H. P. Murray Aynsley, a very well known medical man in Christchurob some years ago, died last week, aged SJ, A few months ago he returned frim Scotland, where he had been practising many years.

The death Is announced from Hastings of Mr. James C. Watts, a very old settler, of Hawke's Bay. He wag the son of the late Mr. Wm. Watts/who arrived in Wellington in the ship Arab, in 1-841.

Private S. 0. Foot, who left N«W Plymouth with the 10th Reinforcements, and waa promoted to corporal at the Somme, gained his third stripe and was also awarded the D.C.M. at Messiaea. Sergeant .Foot, whose mother lives at Devon Street East, formerly worked at the Sash and Door Factory. Sub-Inspector Hutton arrived in New Plymouth by the mail train on Saturday night and yesterday took over charge of the Taranaki police district from Sub-Inspector Mcllvejiey. The lattey officer will probably leave for Wellington to-morrow morning. The following names of Taranaki men appear in the casualty list and hospital, progress report issued jn Wellington on Saturday:—Previously reported wound" ed, now reported missing &n4 believed killed: William (Dawson (V< Brassington, Waitara). Still dangerous*

ly ill: iD. Langley (New Plymouth). A message from Waimate states that Mr. George iPitcaithly, 8.A., who has been headmaster of the Waimate Diotriet High School for the past 22 years, has decided to accept an inspectorship in the Auckland Educational District, eom« inening his new duties on November 1«' District Valuer Lloyd, who formerly was in charge of Tarahaki andrecentjj; of Hastings, has been appointed tern* porarily to Taranaki, pending the arrival of District Valuer D. S. Wilson, of Nel« son, who will take charge vice Mr. Hickman F. Russell, who resign* cd at the end of August,

At the Carrington road ( Bchoolhouse oni Friday evening, Mrs, Worn, of M»B|gorei, was presented by the residents or the Carrington and Frankley road districts with a beautiful driving nljj as a slight recognition of tho service She had rea? dcred at the social gatherings as pianist lon many occasions. Mr. K. r Spenca made the presentation. '*' : , , /

The death occurred at the New Pip mouth hospital yesterday of Mrs; Huty who wa» seriously injured in a mote? cycle accident at the corner of Defoe and Egmont Streets on a recent Sunday afternoon. The deceased lady, to be making excellent progress toward* recovery from her injurieß, ; but a sbvera heart attack about 7 ww suited fatally. . ,; / ,-:<• In a letter received from Private "A. 8< M. (Ted) Barriball, he states he hasmefi the following New Plymouth boys where in France:—Cyril 'Parser, tins Stanlev, Ma.ck Peg, Tom Hook, Sid tin, Perce Willing, Roy Elliot and Cyril Barriball, a relative from Auckland. Private Barriball has been in hospital twice since he left New Zealand, suffering from a severe cold and rheumatism.

Mr. Murdoch Eraser has been unpointed to succeed Mrs. DocJcrill, resigiwsd, as ; one of the representatives of the New Plymouth Borough CMffieil on. the Tatana'ki District Hospital' and Charitable Aid Board. The appointment was made at last night's meeting of the Borough Council's Works Committee, on the motion of Cr.-J. Clarke, seconded by Ct. R. J. Deare, no other candidate being proi posed. Mr Robert Forsyth ■ McGtepjrge, who died at Ihwedin oiv Monday; at the age of 95 years, was formerly, prominent in the timber trade. One of his daughters. Miss Rosalie MeGeorge, was the first missionary sent out by the« New Zealand s Baptist Missionary Society of India. She died on her way back invalided, and ■was buried at Kandy, Ceylon. Another daughter wa: Miss Florence, who studied osteopat v " and is now with ihe army in France." Miss Lily, who was connected • with the Eugenics Association h now in, Hastings. News has been received in Nelson that Lieutenant J. H: Cock lorit his life in an aerial fight over Douai on April 14 last, the information having come from German sources. Lieutenant Cock went to the front with the main body, and was severely wounded soon after the landing at Gall'ipoli. He was invalided to Nelson,'but made a good recovery, and served again in Egypt and in France. While on the Western front he was again wounded, and upon recovery he transferred to the Royal Flying Cores, and uj. timately served again in France wit', the Scouts, meeting his death as' above stated.

Writing of #ie late Mr. W. Humphries, the Inglewoe-d Record-says; He came to New Zealand ;in 1851, with hi». parent* and the rest of the family, and had resided in New, Plymouth ever since, where; he had been almost continually in business. He wos'one of .tfce'torWw'S »arjies} friends, as with two of his brothers-* Messrsi Thos. and Edward—their ig&), exactly coincided with, those of the writer and his two brothers, Ohisenhall anft Gervase, and thoy were constantly together, and now the two "Toms > of the sextet are the only ones on this side of the Great Divide. The late Mr. W. Humphries was intimately connected with Inglewood's earliest days, he hav» ing, as a member of his firm of grocers, etc. built the first store ever erected in Inglewood, the store being an unosteniatious building of tawa uprights let in the "-round and covered with corrugated iron." Very shortly after the firm built an absolutely (at the time) palatial store, which is now occupied by Messrs Grossman and Son. The late Mr. W. Humphries had command of these buildings and business, but only visited at intervals, the store being run firstly bv Mr. R. Stevens, and later by Mr J. Newman. Mr. W. Humphries watched tho changing of Inglewood from n standing bush to civilisation, and now hm WmselJ taken his last great change. /